Thesaurus:irritable
English edit
Adjective edit
Sense: easily annoyed or irritated edit
Synonyms edit
- atrabilious
- bad-tempered
- bilious
- bitchy (vulgar, colloquial)
- brainish
- cantankerous
- carnaptious (UK dialect, Ireland)
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- dyspeptic
- edgy (dated)
- fantoddish
- fiery
- fretful
- grumpy
- grotchy (fandom slang)
- grouchy
- hissy
- hot-livered (archaic)
- hot-tempered
- hotheaded
- huffy
- humpy
- ill-natured
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- out of sorts
- peevish [⇒ thesaurus]
- pettish
- petulant
- prickly
- quick-tempered
- querulous
- raspy
- ratty (originally Britain, informal)
- short-tempered
- snappish
- snappy
- snippety
- snippish
- snippy
- snitchy
- splenetic
- stressy
- testy
- tetchy
- tetty (obsolete)
- thin-skinned
- thorny
- touchy
- twitchy (figuratively)
- umbrageous (figuratively)
- waspish
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Hypernyms edit
Various edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “825. Excitability” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “901. Irascibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “irritable” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.